Just noticed that there are two new unique clans.

Crystal horde, filled with high level bots?

Can anyone explain what exactly is going on?

they came automatically when the first 35 of the highscores are at least level 50.
they are mostly the clones of the first 35 players, however there are some changes in them, they are made a bit tougher. they declare war for the first 5 clans and after 7 defeats they'll go away for a while, then come back and start it all over again.

Thanks for the info.

Having a new horde pop-up suddenly was quite weird to say the least.

Do they attack other random players or only those they are in war with? Do they have any SE (for looting)?

they do have SE for looting. But there clans have max on a lot of buildings making them interesting to fight.

I got like 200k from them already, but lost almost 50k from their strong members

Just an additional info. Crystal players (bots) can hit you even if you are under 15% of HP.

When does the second crystal horde come? When there are another 35 players over level 50?

When they come back after the 7 defeats, do they come back at a higher level (I notice on world 1 there is 1 clan hovering around the 50-60 and another around 80) or is it the second clan that replicates the top players again?

Edit: how long does it take for them to come back after their 7th defeat?

When they come back, they are "copies" of the current above level 50 players. So they get stronger but at a rate matching the actual players. They take about 5 days or a week, not less though, to come back. The second clan is a kind of mystary to me since i asked Hungarian players and they said on Hungarian doomlord there is only 1 Crystal clan

Idézet: Hrus - 2010.07.25. 06:43:23

They attack in random but ofcourse the most attacks go to players whos clans are at war with them

The Crystals have (apparently) disappeared off World 2

Idézet: Viridel - 2011.01.09. 20:11:53

Today, 08:00 The Crystal clan has been defeated and fled!

they lost there 7th war today

Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2011.01.09. 20:14:44

Damn, I was actually able to use my Duel Points there for a while

sounds like they come back every 5 days or so keep saving those points, would rather u use them on crystals than me lol

They attack in random but ofcourse the most attacks go to players whos clans are at war with them

I have purchased 3 Soul-Binding Saddles at level 110 for my Pets but when I equipped them they should have increased my Pets skill points by +10 but they did not increase my Skill amounts at all. What has gone wrong? What are the Pets maximum skill levels for Pets?

Idézet: Paladin - 2012.04.24. 22:12:04

Your pets can have a maximum of [Pet base level] skill points, and no more than [Pet base level]/2 in any one skill. What the Saddle does is raise the first one, total maximum number of skill points, by 10.

So lets say you have a pet with a Base level of 100. It can have a total of 100 skill points, and max 50 in any one skill. Say you level up the pet and it gets all these skill points, and you put 50 into Magic Absorption, and 50 into Critical hit. When your pet levels up again, it does not gain any more skill points, so no more skills.
If that pet now has the Saddle equipped, it max skill points is increased by 10, and you can get another skill (say Intelligent pet for example) to 10. So the Saddle does not give any skill points per se, and does enable you to increase skills above the limit. What it does is enable your pet to have some ranks in another skill. Combined with the similar bonus from the Mega essences in the Alchemy lab (requires AL 50), it can be quite good.

(also, this should probably be under Help request, since it doesn´t have anything to do with the Crystal Clan)

Im not really sure if this was discussed already or not, but I have one suggestion.

Sometimes, when I want to attack Crystal Clan clones, it gives me this message:
"It's no use attacking him/her, because you would not get any soul-energy."

My point is, sometimes, I dont attack for SE - that is just a bonus, I mostly attack for Quests, which means, I dont care whether I get or not any SE, I want my Crit hits/spell counts...so can you somehow delete this restriction?

If you get that "error", it means that whatever player/bot you are trying to hit, has been attacked too many times in the last 5mins(or some other min number).

Crystal clan members are starting to appear on my Duel list and I have noticed the last two I have attacked have lvl 80 boots 'Crystal Boots'
These boots are superior to any I can find at the Huckster. Is this usual for Crystal clan members to have boots that are unavailable to the rest of us?